International Film Service

International Film Service (IFS) was an American animation studio created to exploit the popularity of the comic strips controlled by William Randolph Hearst.

Despite their similar names "Hearst News" IFS, California, is not related to "International Film Service Company, Inc.", New York.

The success of the Hearst Newsreel led the media magnate to create International Film Service (IFS) in 1915.

IFS was also the first studio for a whole host of future animation talent: Vernon Stallings, Walter Lantz, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King, John Foster, Grim Natwick, Burt Gillett and Isadore Klein.

Hearst had been pursuing an aggressive pro-German position for decades under the assumption that German immigrants were the core of his newspaper consistency.